bmw3027

I am working on this small program and everything looks fine, but I get a "local function definitions are illegal" for all of my methods. All of the errors occur in this file I have pasted here.

#include "GSS.h";

int main(){

int GeometricSeriesSum( int x,unsigned int n) {
int sum = 0;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i <= n; ++i){
int prod = 1;
for (unsigned int j = 0; j < i; ++j)
prod *= x;

sum += prod;
}
return sum;
}

int CalcGSByHorner(int x, unsigned int n){
int sum = 0;
for (unsigned int i = 0; i <= n; ++i){
sum = 1 + x*sum;
}
return sum;
}

int CalcCNRecursively(int x, int n){
if(n==0)
return 1;
else if (n%2==0)
return CalcXNRecursively(x*x, n/2);
else
return x*CalcXNRecursively(x*x, n/2);
}

int CalcGSUsingClosedForm(int x, unsigned int n){
if (x==1)
return n+1;
else
return (CalcXNRecursively(x, n + 1) - 1) / (x - 1);
}
return 0;
}


These are the exact errors that I get:
GSS.cpp(5) : error C2601: 'GeometricSeriesSum' : local function definitions are illegal
GSS.cpp(17) : error C2601: 'CalcGSByHorner' : local function definitions are illegal
GSS.cpp(25) : error C2601: 'CalcCNRecursively' : local function definitions are illegal
GSS.cpp(34) : error C2601: 'CalcGSUsingClosedForm' : local function definitions are illegal

Polyphemus_

firstly, welcome to the forums
secondly, use code tags next time

You have put all your functions in the main function. you have to put them outside your main function. When a program starts, the main function is called, which calls the functions again and does the stuff it has to do.

L7Sqr

The general format of a single file would look similar to:
Although it is not set in stone that way.
You can define all your function before main (without prior declaration) or not declare a helper function until after main (so long as it is declared before it is used).
The above method is just a common way.

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bl00dninja

i'm just gonna pull a response out of my ass because i'm not going to read your code (cuz sans tags and all...) but are you including a header file that you've written yourself without giving US the code to look at? if not cool, i sure as hell don't know the whole STL and maybe there is a GSS.h, if not, please post that code as well.

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